Yikes , indians slaughtered each other for hundreds of years before white folks arrived. They continued their nomadic savagery for hundreds of years after the white men arrived. It was the white man who brought innovation and civilization to the nation. Sorry.
> Yikes , indians slaughtered each other for hundreds of years before white folks arrived. <
Yep. I once read an article about a French fur trapper who worked the Great Lakes around the time of the American Revolution. I can’t remember the names of the Indian tribes in the article, so I’ll just use A and B.
Well, one day the trapper went to visit his friends at Tribe A and couldn’t find them anywhere. So he canoed down to his friends at Tribe B.
“Where is Tribe A?” he asked the chief of Tribe B. “We killed them all,” the chief replied.
They also practiced slavery.
and lifespan was typically no more than 35 years ... and the biggest innovation in aborigine life was the introduction of horses by the Spaniards ...
One reason there were no prisons may be due to the willingness to use capital punishment. Could we have that same sort of paradise today if we eliminated prisons in exchange for capital punishment for all violent felons?